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Instruments
  
Keyboards


Name
  
Kevin McAlea

Associated acts
  
Kate BushBarclay James Harvest

Similar People
  
Nino Ferrer, Pip Williams, Kate Bush

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Kevin McAlea is an Irish keyboard player and songwriter, known for his work with Barclay James Harvest and Kate Bush and for writing English lyrics for the song 99 Luftballons, as the UK hit "99 Red Balloons". He also plays saxophone, uilleann pipes and guitar.

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McAlea was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

He performed with Kate Bush, on her only tour, 1979's "The Tour of Life", and again during her 2014 Hammersmith Apollo residency, "Before the Dawn". He has also worked with Bees Make Honey, Clannad, Barbara Dixon, Dr Feelgood, Enya, David Gilmour, Roy Harper, Kirsty MacColl, Seal, Poly Styrene, and Kim Wilde. He has his own band, Celtic Orbis.

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Discography

McAlea's career includes contributions to:

  • 1979 (1979): Barclay James Harvest - Eyes of the Universe
  • 1979 (1979): Kate Bush - Live at Hammersmith Odeon
  • 1981 (1981): Barclay James Harvest - Turn Of The Tide
  • 1987 (1987): Barclay James Harvest - Face To Face
  • 1980 (1980): Poly Styrene - Translucence
  • 1993 (1993): Barclay James Harvest - Caught In The Light
  • 1997 (1997): Barclay James Harvest - River Of Dreams
  • 2004 (2004): Poly Styrene - Flower Aeroplane

    • References

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